Book MarketingReviews of savvybookmarketing.com

Stay away from this company. They will just take your money, make promises, and never complete your project!

I’m writing this review hoping that this never happens to anyone else. This actually happened a couple of years ago, but I’m realizing that I should responsibly write genuine review about my experience. This is a company that charged me $20,000 ultimately never completing the project, no copyright, no website or marketing…I hired another company to do my project and now my website is up and running. Savvy ignored me for almost 2 years despite my repeated requests for reimbursement and a letter from my attorney, which was ignored.

I hired them to help with a relaunch of a book with new cover and title in April. They came recommended on a writer site. But it has been a disastrous event. Communication is awful. Consistency among project managers even worse. I have had at least four project managers in six months. It recently took 11 days for thenm to tell me they'll get back to me on a matter I had asked about. Follow through on deliverables is forced and even then not on all of them because they don't know them. There is a constant need to keep checking the original agreement, which "Wil" does great selling. They did a decent job on creating a new cover. Creative is fine. But asking to review SEO was never done. Hashtags remained what I already had. So basically for a deal at "$4700" I got some new creative and horrible follow through. They were good about trying to sell me on more like "a unique opportunity for a special few" on Time Square and to have book repped at Frankfurt...both for obscene amounts of money. I asked for a partial refund and was assured they were handing it off to the best. Absolutely would never use them again.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND SAVVY BOOK MARKETING. *After consulting their website in August 2022, I contracted for their Standard Publishing & Silver Marketing Bundle Plan. * They did not fulfil the contract in any way. They hardly began. My project manager left, and after great delay, I was finally informed after 3 weeks. * Their business address is a kindergarten at 780 Palisade Ave., Teaneck, N.J. * I won a judgment against them in Small Claims Crt., in Bergen N.J. for $2579.00 in August 2024. THEY DID NOT EVEN SHOW UP for the trial.

I do not recommend using Savy. I will not be using them for my next books. I have been trying to publish 2 books with this company for over a year. They claim to be editors, yet I personally went back and found countless spelling and grammatical errors, that I had to point out to the staff. They have a HUGE lack of communication when it comes to their process and all the different delays of your book. Additionally, they will say things like "We will work on this simultaneously" all while failing to even discuss or recognize 50% of the project. They will say things like "We have everything we need to move forward" and then will not reach back out to you. YOU have to take the initiative to check in on them- what is the status, has anything changed in the last 2 weeks, or 3 weeks, are we actually moving forward (the answer was no movement btw). I am baffled that they have higher reviews online but can see now that they ARE NOT BBB Accredited. I WILL NOT be using them for my next books and will be sure that others are aware of their poor customer service, communication, and editing skills.

They did a reasonable job on the web site BUT no accounting for $ spent on advertising. Blog turned up on some obscure site called World press. No explanation if a press release was ever distributed or to whom. No reporting if any social media postings took place or when. No accounting for paid campaign budget of $500 ( I doubt if it was spent). No notice if video trailer ever posted. No sign of advice about u-tube marketing (if any). No monthly reports. No sign of or advice that an Amazon ad campaign took place. What was promised to be a 3-4 month project dragged out over 18+ months. ZERO absolutely ZERO sales to show for their token effort (if any).

Do NOT use Savvy Book Marketing or SEO Prohub UK. Firstly, they are not based in the UK and they are not registered at Companies House. They have not adhered to the contract I had with them. They told me the contract was written by a person who had now left the company so wasn't relevant - clearly they will say anything to wriggle out of their responsibilities. Their work is unprofessional, littered with errors and they will not protect an author - especially a first time author who may not understand the important of book size, font size, spacing, margins and the impact this has on royalties. They changed my book to A4 size without telling me, meaning my royalties would have been, at best, 27p per book. Luckily, I have engaged an independent printer who spotted all the errors and warned me so I could terminate the contract before Savvy did any further damage. I have referred the case to Trading Standards, Action Fraud (for misuse of my credit card), the two credit card companies I used and I intend to take legal action if all monies they have taken are not returned. They have left me almost £2,000 in debt and I have had books printed with ISBNs that now do not belong to me which again is a breach of contract - so I've got to reprint books to the tune of £4,000. I'm substantially out of pocket. DO NOT use this company and do not believe the positive reviews unless you can contact the person direct because I strongly suspect (although I have no proof) that the reviews are from company employees.